Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. Who For What Runs.

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Commentary to the song “The Morning Exercise”.

This song calls to mind an old saying: “Cura, ut valeas!” (“Take care that you be well.”) As the epigraph to it, there can be used the words of Porphyry Ivanov, peace be upon him: “Tem­per­ing with cold water has a very great benefit, it is the awakening of the central nervous sys­tem.”

The song was performed in the play of the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire “The Last Parade” (1968).

The presented text is adapted from Andrey Kneller’s translation.

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